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Some guy named Colman McCarthy, who “directs the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington and teaches courses on nonviolence at four area universities and two high schools”, crams so much stupid into this 800 word piece it has to be a record.

It is indeed full of fail, so let’s have some fun with it, shall we?

Now that asking and telling has ceased to be problematic in military circles, ROTC has resurfaced as a national issue: Will universities such as Harvard, Yale and other Ivy League schools be opened to Reserve Officers’ Training Corps since colleges can no longer can argue that the military is biased against gays and therefore not welcome?

You’ll get three guesses as to the answer of this question and the first two don’t count.

As always, there’s no way to appease a socialist. Give them what they want and they’ll just move the goal posts. Get this, RINOs: YOU CAN’T NEGOTIATE WITH LEFTISTS. THEY WILL NEVER, EVER GIVE AN INCH NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU CONCEDE TO THEM.

The debate reminds me of an interview I conducted over parents’ weekend at the University of Notre Dame in 1989. I sat down with Theodore Hesburgh, the priest who had retired two years earlier after serving 35 years as the university’s president. Graciously, he invited me to lunch at the campus inn. During our discussion, he took modest pride at having raised more than a billion dollars for Notre Dame, and expressed similar feelings about the university’s ROTC program. More than 700 student-cadets were in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. Few universities, public or private, had a larger percentage of students in uniform then. The school could have been renamed Fort Hesburgh.

When I suggested that Notre Dame’s hosting of ROTC was a large negative among the school’s many positives, Hesburgh disagreed. Notre Dame was a model of patriotism, he said, by training future officers who were churchgoers, who had taken courses in ethics, and who loved God and country. Notre Dame’s ROTC program was a way to “Christianize the military,” he stated firmly.

I asked if he actually believed there could be a Christian method of slaughtering people in combat, or a Christian way of firebombing cities, or a way to kill civilians in the name of Jesus.

Oh yay. Another leftist idiot who understands the Bible like he understands quantum physics, which is to say: Not at all.

Did he think that if enough Notre Dame graduates became soldiers that the military would eventually embrace Christ’s teaching of loving one’s enemies?

The interview quickly slid downhill.

Obviously. The poor priest probably realized at this point that he was trying to reason with something slightly dumber than a wet shingle.

These days, the academic senates of the Ivies and other schools are no doubt pondering the return of military recruiters to their campuses. Meanwhile, the Pentagon, which oversees ROTC programs on more than 300 campuses, has to be asking if it wants to expand to the elite campuses, where old antipathies are remembered on both sides.

It should not be forgotten that schools have legitimate and moral reasons for keeping the military at bay, regardless of the repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell.”

After decades of the Marxist Ivy League indoctrination camps arguing that they wouldn’t let the ROTC in because the military discriminated against gays. Now that they don’t have DADT to blame for their blatant America-hating lack of patriotism, they should just move the goal posts again.

They can stand with those who for reasons of conscience reject military solutions to conflicts.

“For reasons of utter lack of basic intelligence”, more like, as military solutions to conflict have proven to be the only ones guaranteed to work every time. Just ask the Carthaginians. Or the Nazis. Or Mussolini. Or Napoleon. Or Tojo. Or Kaiser Wilhelm. Or… You get the drift.

They can stand with Martin Luther King Jr. and his view of America’s penchant for war-making: “This madness must cease,” he said from a pulpit in April 1967. Even well short of the pacifist positions, they can argue the impracticality of maintaining a military that has helped drive this country into record depths of debt. The defense budget has more than doubled since 2000, to over $700 billion.

Of course, defense spending is just about the only massive spending item on the budget that is actually justified by the Constitution. Not to mention that that “gargantuan” $700 billion makes for less than 5% of the $14 TRILLION deficit.

They can align themselves with colleges such as Hobart, Earlham, Goshen, Guilford, Hampshire, George Fox and a long list of others that teach alternatives to violence. Serve your country after college, these schools say, but consider the Peace Corps as well as the Marine Corps.

Because, as we all know, the tie-dyed morons in the Peace Corps have solved literally… literally NO conflicts ever in their entire misguided existence. As a matter of fact, the only thing they’ve “served” to do is to increase the deficit wasting money on hare-brained socialist schemes.

Will the Ivies have the courage for such stands?

The “courage” to refuse to put yourself in harm’s way to defend your nation and instead hunker down behind the backs of men and women doing the actually dangerous job of ensuring that you can continue to be a fucking worthless pussy?

We guess that Webster’s is going to have to come up with another definition of the word “courage” to make sense of that bullshit.

I’m doubtful. Only one of the eight Ivy League schools – Cornell – offers a degree in peace studies.

And just where would we BE without “peace studies?”

Their pride in running programs in women’s studies, black studies, and gay and lesbian studies is well-founded,

On what, exactly? Other than wasting money and time on teaching utterly fucking useless “skills”?

but schools have small claims to greatness so long as the study of peace is not equal to the other departments when it comes to size and funding.

On behalf of the Armed Forces: You’re fucking WELCOME, you useless little ass-skate!

At Notre Dame, on that 1989 visit and several following, I learned that the ROTC academics were laughably weak. They were softie courses.

Quite unlike the rigorous academics of “studying” gender (we did that too, by the way. Only we called “gender studies” “Friday night.”)

The many students I interviewed were candid about their reasons for signing up: free tuition and monthly stipends, plus the guarantee of a job in the military after college. With some exceptions, they were mainly from families that couldn’t afford ever-rising college tabs.

Summing up the leftist sneer of that quote: “Those idiot, poor morons.”

To oppose ROTC, as I have since my college days in the 1960s, when my school enticed too many of my classmates into joining, is not to be anti-soldier. I admire those who join armies, whether America’s or the Taliban’s: for their discipline, for their loyalty to their buddies and to their principles, for their sacrifices to be away from home. In recent years, I’ve had several Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans in my college classes. If only the peace movement were as populated by people of such resolve and daring.

Do even believe the bull crap you’re serving up yourself?

Yeah, sure, you just fucking adore the Armed Forces as long as they don’t darken your doorstep with their foul, putrid, poor, ignorant presence. We’re completely and utterly convinced.

ROTC and its warrior ethic taint the intellectual purity of a school, if by purity we mean trying to rise above the foul idea that nations can kill and destroy their way to peace.

It DOES have an actual record of achieving just that, as opposed to your “peace studies” that have never achieved a single gorram thing in all of history other than to give us something to roll our eyes at.

If a school such as Harvard does sell out to the military, let it at least be honest and add a sign at its Cambridge front portal: Harvard, a Pentagon Annex.

We might consider that if you had had the honesty of putting up signs saying “Ivy League, a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the KGB Since 1945”.

Using that logic then joining the Schutzstaffel ?? was no different than joining the Boy Scouts. How do these troglodytes manage to function in society with their heads shoved so far up their asses that it’s deprived of oxygen? Let alone gaining any position requiring responsibility?

I’d like to kick their asses up over their shoulders, and pound their heads down through their assholes, an then hang them by the heels, and piss up their nostrils. Then stick their carcass full of pitch pine splinters until they look like a hedgehog, and light them up.

Remove ALL of the Federal money from any institution that refuses to have ROTC/recruiters on campus. Most of us who have served don’t want a bunch pf progressives from the Ivy League around anyway.

As for the twerp that wrote that drivel(apologies to all twerps), I really hope he gets to need one of us knuckle-dragging, gun-toting, Neandetals someday to save his ass. And no Muzzy……you are not a twerp.

You know what? This leaves me even more convinced that, even though he was the kind of asshole that would order a Code Red on a young Marine, Colonel Jessep was one hundred percent absofrakinglutely RIGHT when he said:

You can’t handle the truth! Son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by men with guns. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Lt. Weinburg? I have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. You weep for Santiago, and you curse the Marines. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what I know […] You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall! We use words like “honor,” “code,” “loyalty.” We use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline. I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that I provide, and then questions the manner in which I provide it! I would rather you just said “thank you,” and went on your way. Otherwise, I suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post! Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you are entitled to!

To all ranks: SitRep
Close order drill has a new meaning, as do rules of engagement, and debriefing.
We’ll see what happens when somebody uses his authority for purposes other than intended. But the Judge has already done that.

I think it’s great that these ivy league sewer drains don’t have ROTC programs. If I had to deal with an officer who went through one of these schools…well…I’ll leave it there because this will quickly turn into an anti officer rant, which it is not. No one appreciates peace more than a man who has lived without it. This snot nosed tit sucker has probably never even been in a fist fight. If you want to understand peace than you must understand it’s engine, which is war. There are evil people in the world, and usually the only way to stop evil people is with violence. Just like the Earth balances itself through electrical storms, humanity balances out it’s evil nature, and emotional spectrum with war. Only people who have seen combat can truly say they understand the full spectrum of human potential. The true capability of humans to love, hate and everything in between is really only understood in the darkest times of our history.

What Master Guns says. Take away the federal dollars and the ivys can go fuck themselves at their own leisure. Honestly, this should have been done ages ago when the first ivy tower shut it’s gates to the ROTC programs.

I felt sadness and a growing anger at those words…if that is what higher education has come to mean……….they disgrace the institution.
I do know this, I live by a very different set of rules, rules those people would not like…..for starters how many of them could safely handle a firearm?
Rules to live by…
Or die by….
Their choice……..
And mine….
And thanks, Muzzy. You ever come to the states we owe you a free day of shooting your favorite guns.